Need help...what color curtains and couch?

mets2016

7 years ago

Hi! We just moved into a new home. I am looking to get curtains and a new couch for the space. Currently, the walls are painted a cream color with white trim. In the future when time permits I would love to paint the walls a very pale gray/blue color and have the floor a shade or 2 darker. The dilemma I'm having is what color curtains and couch should I get that would go well with the current wall color? The plan is to paint in the future so I would definitely want to invest in something that would go well in the new space.

Thank you!!!

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beckysharp Reinstate SW Unconditionally

7 years ago

Pick your furniture first. Then paint.

This blog post from Maria Killam is very helpful. Also this one about choosing blue paint.

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Errant_gw
7 years ago
Paint is cheap. I would go ahead and paint the color you want before picking furniture and window treatments.
aprilneverends
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
So, if I understood correctly-you want sofa and curtains that will work with cream color and lighter floor as well as with pale gray/blue and darker floor?

My advice then would be:

-don't go for a neutral. Go for color.

Neutrals have various undertones, that might work in both versions of the room, or might not.

Color is color. It holds its own.

Of course there are shades, tints, warmer, colder, and what not.

But it still will be much easier to deal with, than with a neutral, if you're changing the scheme later.

Pick the color that makes you happy. Or dreamy. Or calm. Whatever is important for you to feel in this room. Take into account your style, and style of your house.

Look at many different variations of this color. For example there are many pinks, but it can be this slight blush pink, or full force magenta. Same with all the other colors.

Pick the intensity you'll be comfortable with. You'll need to keep most (not everything but most) of your other furnishings/fabric within the same intensity.

And-an important thing-white is a color, for our purpose. Black is a color too.

Start with window treatments maybe-they can become a great inspiration for the whole room. You don't have to buy them first, before your sofa-but you can find what you love, and start building on that.

If you have art that inspires you, if you saw a movie that was a visual feast for you, if you've been to a park you liked a lot-literally anything can give you clues for colors you'll love for a long time, regardless where you'll put them and what you'll surround them with.

Congratulations on your new place!
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eld6161
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On my monitor your room looks yellow. It's it is indeed cream, anything will go with it. Ideally, you should paint first.

Since you want a gray/blue in the future, I would think about a charcoal sofa

You can go in so many different directions with the curtains. Pick the sofa first.
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Can you look at pictures of living rooms you like?

Personally, I like very neutral rooms, so I'd get a neutral sofa and linen curtains and add some color with pillows, accessories, rug. Like this look below would go with your current cream and future grey/blue.

Or get a rug that has cream and blue and gray in it and take it from there.
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